a. (UN-1 7 b.) a. Not entitled to be released on bail. b. Not admitting of bail.

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1627.  in Birch, Crt. & Times Chas. I. (1848), I. 295. If the cause be unexpressed, he shall be unbailable.

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a. 1718.  Penn, Life, Wks. 1726, I. 228. We are … then thrown into a noisom Gaol, and there we must lie unbailable.

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1861.  G. G. Perry, Hist. Ch. Eng., I. iv. 185. The unbailable imprisonment which lighted upon those who declined it.

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1884.  Imp. Dict., s.v., The offence is unbailable.

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